Maximize your revenues with a powerful software license enforcement system

Feel secure knowing you have a powerful, flexible, world-class software licensing system: SoftwareShield.

Maximize your profit potential, reduce costs and increase your software security - introduce the SoftwareShield licensing system as early as possible into your development cycle.

Software publishers use SoftwareShield to license and protect their titles in a wide variety of flexible ways - allowing them to securely sell their products any way their customers want to buy it. Successful publishers leverage this advantage to sell more software and get paid for every copy.

Publishers electronically generate and enforce their software licenses and guard against unauthorized use by implementing various built-in product activation algorithms or copy protection - all from a single binary file. Product activation can be completely automated and run securely behind your payment processing merchant or gateway - completely hands off.

The decision to "buy-or-build" a software licensing system can make a substantial difference to the profitability of any published software title.

Why Choose SoftwareShield?

SoftwareShield is very secure, powerful and flexible. SoftwareShield is an affordable solution that requires no royalty fees or surcharges for additional products you may wish to protect now or in the future (like many competitors products). These fees competitors charge can add up to a huge portion of your revenues. SoftwareShield's feature-rich software licensing and protection SDK helps you maximize your revenues and increase your products security.

The SoftwareShield SDK comes with everything your team needs to deliver a secure solution, on schedule and under budget - every time, including:

  • The SoftwareShield License Manager for creating and compiling your licenses.
  • The SoftwareShield CheckPoint License Server™ for providing a truly world-class automated server based activation solution.
  • The SoftwareShield Manual-Activator™ for generating secure activation codes to activate your customers software.
  • The ClientProtector™ COM Server component which controls and manages licensing for your protected applications.
  • The SoftwareShield COM-Activator™ for when you want to build your own in-house solution for activating your products.
  • The SoftwareShield Web-Activator™ for a web-deployed, hands-off solution that allows you to be selling and activating your software 24 hours a day 7 days a week automatically. (only with the Internet Edition)
  • Example code in several languages, test and example applications, sophisticated development tools like the FingerPrint Viewer, test-plans, comprehensive flow-charts, debugging servers, exhaustive and easy-to use help, rapid-response technical support and much more - all help your team develop a solid solution quickly.

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New in V3 is the CheckPoint License Server™. The SoftwareShield CheckPoint License Server allows you to control the activation of your software from a central secure server location and realize dozens of new and powerful enterprise class licensing features. There are many more changes and improvements. Have a look at What's New.
     
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Simply the most powerful and flexible licensing system you can buy.


"Research shows that over 90% of software titles that are pirated or cracked use licensing systems that are developed 'in-house' (by publishers whose primary focus is not security products). In-house licensing solutions are often ineffective, left until the last-minute, are inflexible and can seldom be used again on other projects.

Likewise, publishers who decide to spend substantial development resources building a more solid and (possibly) more secure system in-house find this is a mistake too: it comes at a substantial opportunity cost - the primary functionality in their product.

The decision for most publishers is clear: to maximize profits, reduce costs and enhance security - buy good software licensing SDK"

Zack Wickes, President
SoftwareShield Technologies Inc